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Turkish Date

07/27/2019

Our third time using our lucky dip of ideas sent us on a romantic dinner date. I chose a Turkish restaurant that had amazing reviews for quality of food and service, and we weren’t disappointed. We started with three types of hommus with fried crackers and fresh carrot and cucumber…Read More

Bowling

07/20/2019

We’ve got a box of activity ideas that we use as a lucky dip, and this weekend Sandra drew ‘ten pin bowling’ from the box. She didn’t have a strong history, but really wanted to learn how to bowl well, so I drew on my lessons from 30 years ago…Read More

Happy Friday

07/12/2019

Sandra decided to dig out the selfie stick this morning and take a pic of us getting ready for the last day before the weekend. We’re off to a concert tonight and rock climbing tomorrow afternoon.

Anniversary Lunch

07/01/2019

Sandra took me to lunch to celebrate our first anniversary – counted from our first kiss. She gave me three options and a deadline to make my choice. We ended up having an Indian banquet at a restaurant in Mercado del Rio, an upmarket food court we’d been to during…Read More

San Carlos

06/29/2019

We decided to spend our anniversary weekend away, and Sandra had heard of a town to the west surrounded by waterfalls. We arrived at our B&B late on Friday night, lucky to have found a tuktuk when we got off the bus, because they normally stop running at 10pm. The…Read More

Picnics

06/24/2019

After almost daily rain since I returned at the beginning of February kept the ground wet, we were finally able to put down a cloth in the Botanical Gardens last weekend. While we lay there reading together, a battered, but beautiful butterfly landed on my leg, then on Sandra’s finger.…Read More

Meeting Sandra’s Father

04/19/2019

Sandra’s father hasn’t been well, and was due to have a heart operation soon. I wanted to meet him before then in case anything went wrong. He lives in a town a two-hour bus ride from Bogota, though to call it a town is an understatement. It felt as big…Read More

Playing Frog

04/17/2019

On our return to Bogota, Sandra’s mum took us to play Rana (which means ‘frog’), one of her favourite games. The object is to throw discs or, in the case of this new version, steel balls at various holes in the top of a stand from about three metres away.…Read More

Isla Grande

03/27/2019

We left Cartagena proper for three nights on Isla Grande in a fairly rustic island hotel. Sandra had been given the name of this one by a friend and assumed it was the only option, but we soon discovered that it was one of about twenty places tourists could stay…Read More

Cartagena

03/25/2019

Sandra suggested that we go away for a ‘honeymoon’ trip when I got back to Colombia. I chose Cartagena as one of the places on our long list, partly because it was tropical and had that honeymoon image, and partly because it was central to a few places. In the…Read More

3 thoughts on “Our Story

  1. Hola Mario como estas ?
    Te felicito muy buen trabajo.
    El relato de cada foto esta genial las fotos muy bonitas.
    Es un diario de pareja muy ingenioso para el futuro, pues en unos cuantos años eso es lo que queda, los recuerdos, los momentos vividos y compartidos con “AMOR”

  2. Hola mis chinitos, que bueno verlos en esa actitud, en estos tiempos de la difícil situación que se esta viviendo a nivel mundial.
    Pues es un ejemplo de fe . positivismo y ganas de ganar esta batalla, y donde hay amor, comprensión, respeto y tolerancia, como lo hay entre ustedes, nada es imposible.
    Y eso a mi como madre y suegra, me genera mucha alegría, y aquí en nuestro núcleo familiar que es pequeño, que son Ricardo, Andrés y yo, Mario ya para nosotros es nuestra familia, ustedes dos son uno solo.
    Admiro lo recursivos que son, para ingeniárselas, y aprovechar cada momento para celebrar sus fechas especiales no importa el lugar , el dia ni la hora es solo mantener vivo ese ” AMOR ” , por los cuales decidieron unir sus vidas
    Y con toda mi Bendición y augurios, de que sea por siempre.
    Mario se ha ganado, todo nuestro cariño y respeto , por ser como es.
    Los amo y les sigo deseando lo mejor de lo mejor.
    Un fuerte abrazo de oso graaaaaaande.

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